If you are having trouble getting to a Battlemaster from GM island, see me ingame, this is a 30 second trip.

As far as netherwings go, it was no secret that those are available to all. Perhaps this should change in some fashion, but it's perfectly fair, you were given the exact same choices as every other person in this regard.

T1 does "suck" to some extent, however T3 is extremely simple to accquire here, and it most assuredly does not "suck" as much as T1. If you want T2 for looks, by all means go farm it.

Guards on GM Island might be ok, until someone figures out how to kill them or trick them so they can go ahead and gank people/vendors anyway. I prefer a live human presence to automated system that can be exploited with a simple aggro pull.

I love the band, too, and I wish they would play more often as well.